Reading V Chelsea match thread

[flintyboy73]

well at least we got a point on the weekend, though another one or three would have been great

[cmonurz]

Mourinho 'quite pleased' with that win then.

Can't believe after his best game for the Royals, Hunt comes up with an air shot in injury time.

[seahawk10]

Hunt!!! So close. We just didn't finish our chances today. If we even get one more in the first half we get at least a point.

Who did Hunt swap shirts with?

[Yorkshire Royal]

LOL.. I thought the ref had an alright game. Lots of bookings, but lots of late challenges. And definitely a sending off.. idiot..he stamped...

Damn shame as well...

[flintyboy73]

higher, you're a star!

will have to buy you a pint when we move up that way next easter

[cmonurz]

LOL.. I thought the ref had an alright game. Lots of bookings, but lots of late challenges. And definitely a sending off.. idiot..he stamped...

Damn shame as well...

FFS. A stamp! Jesus Christ. If that was a stamp then I am Osama Bin Laden.

Dean was awful. A good referee doesn't dish out 10 yellows for 'late challenges', he sets a precedent by talking to players and then giving yellows for repeat offences.

[phil in cornwall]

I pretty much knew that Cisse would get sent off as soon as he got booked in the first quarter of an hour.
We have seen his disciplinary record and I bet Coppell will be very angry, indeed at our opening two games' return of bookings.

I thought Gunnarsson would come on for Long as we will probably leave 3 at the back and swarm from midfield. Get a corner and Bryn might just score.

come urz!

Bikey started like that too and he has been cooled down.

[cmonurz]

15 shots each, end to end stuff, a great performance that was deserving of at least a point, against one of the best teams in the country.

[Ian Royal]

LOL.. I thought the ref had an alright game. Lots of bookings, but lots of late challenges. And definitely a sending off.. idiot..he stamped...

Damn shame as well...

FFS. A stamp! Jesus Christ. If that was a stamp then I am Osama Bin Laden.

Dean was awful. A good referee doesn't dish out 10 yellows for 'late challenges', he sets a precedent by talking to players and then giving yellows for repeat offences.

Totally agree cmonurz. It was pizarro that lunged iin under Cisse's foot as he tried to control the ball. Thats Pizarro who had already fouled Oster.

Only about 2 of those yellows were actually cards. Did anyone notice the amount of times he waved play on when absolutely nothing had happened. I swear that man is going to get a smack in the face if I ever meet him.

[g]

A good game of two halves.

Reading did brilliant in the first half, even though the Sky commentator kept mentioning 'Jose would have been the only manager in the league to make those changes'. Any manager would have took those useless players halftime and a good move, wish we had that on our bench.

Lots of cards these past few days, hope they slow down to normal as it is slight worrying to have two red cards in two matches. If Rob Styles had been doing this match there would have been 15 red cards.

I've never been a fan of Chelsea, not for the Chelski, money etc, reason but more the character of players they have. It's easy to tell who the dirty players are just by looking at them.

What are the odds of Fae being red carded on his debut aswell?

Any word of Duberry's injury?

[Archie's penalty]

15 shots each, end to end stuff, a great performance that was deserving of at least a point, against one of the best teams in the country.

You're right man it's just a bit annoying to be winning at half-time and letting it slip. Anyway time for playing against some of the 'lesser' teams...Still Everton have just beaten Spurs away...

[Yorkshire Royal]

Sorry. Cisse was stupid to make a stamping motion. He knew he had done wrong.. you can see it on his face when he walked away from the ref.. almost had his fingers crossed as he turned to face the ref. Really stupid.

And seriously.. most those cards were for late tackles. The rules are there to be applied...

Can't help feeling there are some sour grapes from Reading fans here.. understandably though. That first half was ours for the taking and then taken apart in a 10 mins spell in the 2nd. They showed their class and we just ran out of ideas.. Have to wonder what could have been had we had kitson, lita and convey to use..

[Ian Royal]

Sorry. Cisse was stupid to make a stamping motion. He knew he had done wrong.. you can see it on his face when he walked away from the ref.. almost had his fingers crossed as he turned to face the ref. Really stupid.

And seriously.. most those cards were for late tackles. The rules are there to be applied...

Can't help feeling there are some sour grapes from Reading fans here.. understandably though. That first half was ours for the taking and then taken apart in a 10 mins spell in the 2nd. They showed their class and we just ran out of ideas.. Have to wonder what could have been had we had kitson, lita and convey to use..

utter nonsense, he was trying to control the ball by putting his foot on it, something you see players do every game.

most of those yellows may have been freekicks. They were by no stretch of the imagination yellow cards.

[Yorkshire Royal]

utter nonsense, he was trying to control the ball by putting his foot on it, something you see players do every game.

most of those yellows may have been freekicks. They were by no stretch of the imagination yellow cards.

Well you must have been watching a different game to me.. He was nowhere near the ball.. And it looked like a stamp to me..

And if all those challenges were against Reading players, then you would all be saying... definite yellow...

[Ian Royal]

utter nonsense, he was trying to control the ball by putting his foot on it, something you see players do every game.

most of those yellows may have been freekicks. They were by no stretch of the imagination yellow cards.

Well you must have been watching a different game to me.. He was nowhere near the ball.. And it looked like a stamp to me..

And if all those challenges were against Reading players, then you would all be saying... definite yellow...

it seems we were watching totally different games. Mine was in the real world.

And your last comment is rubbish as I didn't restrict my comment about the cards to ours. the same goes for Chelsea's. SWP's was ridiculous as well. I don't think the Carvalho one was worth it either. Mikel was uneccessary, and I can't remember sidwell's

[Yorkshire Royal]

it seems we were watching totally different games. Mine was in the real world.

And your last comment is rubbish as I didn't restrict my comment about the cards to ours. the same goes for Chelsea's. SWP's was ridiculous as well. I don't think the Carvalho one was worth it either. Mikel was uneccessary, and I can't remember sidwell's

Well I will ignore the card issue. In my eyes, he was applying the letter of the law.

But Cisse.. defintie stamp.. no need to be offensive about it. I was watching on a perfect stream. Cisse accepted it. So should you.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Never a dull moment.

Guess that's us top of the Foul-Play League then, nice to see Hunty and Cech having a nice cuddle at the end.

[Ian Royal]

it seems we were watching totally different games. Mine was in the real world.

And your last comment is rubbish as I didn't restrict my comment about the cards to ours. the same goes for Chelsea's. SWP's was ridiculous as well. I don't think the Carvalho one was worth it either. Mikel was uneccessary, and I can't remember sidwell's

Well I will ignore the card issue. In my eyes, he was applying the letter of the law.

But Cisse.. defintie stamp.. no need to be offensive about it. I was watching on a perfect stream. Cisse accepted it. So should you.

you seem to be the only one that saw a stamp, even watching the replay twice I couldn't see anything worth even a foul.

clearly he wasnt applying the letter of the law or Cisse would never have been sent off as Pizarro pulled Osters shirt. Sidwell would have been sent off atfer several late challenges and at least one of Chelsea's players would have been yellowed for simulation.

Most of those cards could have been dealt with by a stern talking to or just a freekick. Why else do you see so few games with that many cards. It was a fairly clean game tbh.

[seahawk10]

it seems we were watching totally different games. Mine was in the real world.

And your last comment is rubbish as I didn't restrict my comment about the cards to ours. the same goes for Chelsea's. SWP's was ridiculous as well. I don't think the Carvalho one was worth it either. Mikel was uneccessary, and I can't remember sidwell's

Well I will ignore the card issue. In my eyes, he was applying the letter of the law.

But Cisse.. defintie stamp.. no need to be offensive about it. I was watching on a perfect stream. Cisse accepted it. So should you.

All due respect Yorkshire, but I was watching (probably on the same stream) and in no way did I think that deserved a card. I will have to look at the replay tonight at home, but I think it was a reaction to the writhing in pain on the ground that got the card out. And the ref missed a shirt pull on Oster right before that.

But you are right, we need to accept it and move on. I think the result was a bit harsh, it felt more like a draw than a loss. If we can beat Everton that would give us four points from the first three games, more than acceptable considering the competition.

[glass half full]

If this referee was applying the letter of the law, then why was he so inconsistent in his decisions? Why, in heaven's name was Kalou not cautioned for playing on long after the whistle was blown (he must have heard it!) and fannying around with the ball to waste more time?